PACIFICA FOUNDATION MISSION STATEMENT: http://www.pacifica.org/about_mission.php
"SOMETHING'S HAPPENING!" ON THE WEB
KPFK can be heard streaming live online at http://www.kpfk.org/ and click on 'Listen Live.' Times are Pacific Time. Program times for "Something's Happening!" are approximate but close and "Monday night" is legally Tuesday morning et seq.
WHAT HAPPENED?
Any program information not included in the program guide - guests, websites, contact information, music and comedy breaks, etc. can be found later at http://www.somethingshappening.com and
click on 'what happened?' Thanks to Sha Tahmasebi for redesigning and maintaining the website.
AUDIO ARCHIVES
"Something's Happening!" (and the Sunday 'Alan Watts') are available for listening on demand for 60 days after broadcast. Go to www.kpfk.org and click on 'Audio Archives.'
Be sure to use the handy search engine to list only the program (s) you are interested in listening to. "Something's Happening!" and "Alan Watts" are not downloadable because they contain program material which is not owned by Pacifica (nor me).
BEHIND THE SCENES
The quiet fund drive ends July 1, resulting in pledge income approximately 1/2 of a regular fund drive - so plans are being made. We have received some help from the government's PPP program for salary income which helps a great deal for a couple of months. Some people in our administrative structure are still pressing for elimination of all paid programmers to cut expenses - but only 5 programmers are paid, out of approximately 99, and all 5 bring in greater amount of pledges than their salaries, which are low while the work load is high. Other helpers feel we should fire ALL the staff and run the station by all volunteers - which ignores the fact that most of the jobs at the station are difficult, complex, time consuming, require expertise and are not-at-all exciting or romantic - just hard work. This recalls in my mind the letter on the desk of a previous manager which was from Mount Wilson directors to please immediately remove all our stuff (transmitter and tower) from Mt. Wilson for another user -- their earlier letters to renew using our 'stuff' (free) were ignored. Another brilliant idea is to cut our large electricity bill by shutting down the transmitter at midnight until 6am as in the olden days of KPFK.
The staff is intensely supportive of our General Manager, Anyel, whose courage, creative actions and many exploratory ideas and actions dwarf those of previous managers, in my opinion based on the previous 35 managers. In the meantime, there is still a bit of time to make your pledge at 818-985-5735 (and press #1 when asked to direct your call) or online at www.kpfk.org or just wait to see how 90.7 might be replaced by corporate interests - will it go religion or sports or another NPR station? (These are my personal thoughts and do not represent anyone else's though some might agree)
ALAN WATTS SUNDAYS 8AM
"The Limits of Language" Part 1 of 2
All Info:
www.alanwatts.org
MONDAY NIGHT, JUNE 29
12-1:45 DANNY SHEEHAN AND ANDREW SIVAK
“The Role of the Public Intellectual, January 23, 2015 1:36
The second (and final) dialogue between Danny and Andrew Sivack dealing with competing sources of power and direction of a population which contains different religions, people with different consciousnesses and government segments competing for power to direct the nation. Should a government be able to direct religious institutions in contradiction to their beliefs? Should a religion be able to create government rules, which are in contradiction to other affected religions and non-religious people? And what of the varying consciousness of people within a given religion – all of which represet 8 different levels according to Danny’s and others’ models? All quite abstract and theoretical but with real life effects in populations. Danny's Websites: www.romeroinstitute.org www.dianielpsheehan.com
1:45-3 Greta Thunberg, “Humanity Has Not Yet Failed”
In a speech presented on Sveriges Radio, in both Swedish and English versions, Greta Thunberg talks for over an hour on her experiences over the last year, her travels in North America, and the world’s response to COVID-19. It is calm, eloquent, and devastating.
Like a modern de Tocqueville, she talks about the sailing trips, her reception in New York, speaking at the UN, meeting politicians in Washington, burned forests, oil refineries, the Paradise fire in California, Davos, and a planned trip to China.
Her disgust at modern North American society comes through loud and clear. A visit with Nancy Pelosi is particularly awkward. Greta and several young people, including many Native Americans, are ushered into the meeting. A large portrait of Abraham Lincoln hangs on the wall. Greta recounts what happened next:
“It is as if two entirely different worlds collide. Worlds separated by hundreds of years of injustices, structural and systematic racism, oppression, and genocide. At last a young activist asks to speak. Her name is Tokata Iron Eyes and she lives in Pine Ridge, an Indian reservation in South Dakota. It is one of the poorest and most socially vulnerable communities in the entire United States.
‘How do you think it feels for us to sit here in this room with that man looking down from that painting?’ Speaker Pelosi apologizes if anyone has been offended, but says that he was a great man who has meant so much for the country. ‘He wanted my people dead,’ Tokata says. ‘He was responsible for the biggest mass execution in US history. It was innocent people from the Lakota Nation. To sit here in this room, with that painting, is so difficult.’
Since the entire trip across North America was by car (a Tesla loaned by Arnold Schwartzenegger) , they got a good look at everyday life, including the endless shopping malls, the oil wells in California and Alberta, the difficulty of finding vegan food on the road, the empty factories, the poor living conditions in some areas, the dying forests, the receding glaciers.
“The emperors are naked. Every single one. It turns out our whole society is just one big nudist party.”
Audio Download:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/20/1954639/-Greta-Thunberg-Humanity-has-not-yet-failed
3-3:30 Science Fiction Break
X Minus One, 'There Will Come Soft Rains' and 'Zero Hour' by Ray Bradbury (11-23-55)
3:40- 5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
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TUESDAY NIGHT, JUNE 30
12-12:30 Reclaiming Native American History: The Yuki of Thule Valley
June 23, 2020
The events of 2020, the toppling of statues and discoveries of hidden history reminded me of events in early 2000 – soon after I moved my radio production and micro power transmitter to Mendocino County.
The State Historic Marker at the entrance to the Round Valley Indian Reservation in Northern CA read: “This valley was discovered by Frank M. Asbill arriving from Eden Valley, on May 15, 1854. During the same year, Charles Kelsey from Clear Lake also visited it, and George E White sighted it from Blue Nose” There is another account of the history of that day that is undisputed fact but forgotten. On May 15, 1854, the Yuki, inhabitants of the valley for over 12000 years, discovered six white men on their land. Led by Pierce Asbill the men opened fire and killed 40 of them. The Asbills returned a year later and captured 35 Yuki women and sold them as slaves to gold miners...
In the Spring of 2000 an effort was begun to rewrite the language on the Marker and officially re-cast the bronze plaque.
On March 21, 2002, California Registered Historical Landmark No. 674 was replaced with this:
“The first inhabitants of Round Valley were the Yuki who resided here for thousands of years in harmony with their natural surroundings. In 1854, European settlers entered the valley. In 1856, conflicts between settlers and Yuki escalated and to protect local tribes the entire watershed was designated a reservation. Additional tribes were subsequently forced on the property: Nomlacki, Wylaki, Lassik, Sinkyone, Pomo (including Cahto, Kabeyo, Shodakai, Yokayo, Shokawa, Shanel, Kashaya, and Habenapo among others), Wappo, Concow Maidu, Colusa, and Achumawi. In 1864, the government reduced the reservation by four-fifths, to its current size.”
And even this improvement leaves more opportunities for the future.
From TUC Radio, www.tucradio.org
12:30-3:30 Demonstration Featuring RFK, Jr.’s Moving Speech to Sacramento Health Freedom Advocates
On June 23rd, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. joined hundreds of parents and health freedom advocates in front of the California State Capitol building in Sacramento to call for change in our government’s handling of vaccine safety issues. In a climate where parents who question the “vaccines are safe an effective” mantra of the pharmaceutical industry and federal health agencies are being bullied and censored at alarming rates and the population of sick children grows. Kennedy gave a moving speech on the need to de-politicize the vaccination debate. He also addressed the growing lack of faith among Americans in our public health officials with their ongoing obfuscation of the very real risks that are inherent in any of the 72 vaccines now being recommended for children in this country. Mr. Kennedy’s speech starts at the 1 hour, 30-minute mark.
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(CAUTION! The speakers include people with different political, scientific, religious, philosophical, and medical positions! As Chomsky has stated, if your concept of freedom of speech doesn't include people whose arguments you abhor, then you don't believe in freedom of speech)
VIDEO: https://childrenshealthdefense.org
Or directly to:
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3:40-5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
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